The Farscape ones are great. Frell and dren have similar vibes.

This matches research on pain catastrophizing vs. neutralizing - your approach of acknowledging pain directly without emotional amplification may be activating different neural pathways than those enhanced by taboo-word usage.

Similar: I say something amusing/funny, e.g. I hit my head on a piece of metal and yelled "ah ya mother was a tin can you metal bastard" which breaks your thought from the pain. Screaming fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... only keeps you focused.

In primates there are commonly 3 noises as a reaction to danger.

Initially the work from the 70s-80s on vervet monkeys https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7433999/ which was then found to be generalized for a host of other primates

~1 for danger in the air

~1 for danger on the ground

misc for unspecified danger

I would bet that modern swearing maps to these calls in a less specific way. Equivalents of "this shite" "that arsehole" and "damnnit" may have an evolutionary origin.

I use a mix of both, but when I’m in really serious pain, I also find it’s more effective when I’m just like “Wew. WOW. Yeah that’s pretty good there. Phew. Wow. WOOOW.”

I dunno why, but wow seems to work well for me.

Getting frelled in the eema, if you will.

Uncensored section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBhPDxszukU

I’m going to keep this as a replacement for “piehole” the next time I need it with a twizzler eater.

I had been working at CERN for a bit less than a year, when my Russo-Israelian coworker, who had never visited Italy, erupted in a perfect "Porca puttana!" that made me question my manners in the office.

Ibyend to use Italian when mildly annoyed and German when utterly pissed off. How about you?

I swear in Italian and Russian. Great minds think alike!

There's a lovely story of a dad who's wife said, "Lil Johhny said a bad word today. Go talk to him." Or something to that effect.

"Johnny, Momma tells me you said X. That's pretty bad, but at least you didn't say the worst word..."

"What's that?" "Can't tell you!" <negotiations> "OK, but you have to PROMISE you'll never say it in front of Momma. It's <whispers> booglashek."

Next day, all his friends were over, calling each other booglasheks.

I spelled around my daughter. This worked until, between 3 and 4 y/o, she asked a preschool teacher what "F-U-C-K" spelled. The teacher asked where she'd heard it and she said her father spelled it a lot.